Natural gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) grew by 2.6%, to 26.07 billion cubic meters within a week, from August 30 to September 5. As of September 5, gas reserves in the country’s USFs increased by 39% from 18.8 billion cubic meters as of September 5, 2019, state-run LLC Gas Transmission System Operator…
JSB Ukrgasbank has already issued UAH 500 million of investment loans under the government program “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%”, the largest indicator among the banks participating in the program, according to a report posted on the bank’s website. “Overall, Ukrgasbank has already financed “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%” for a total sum of UAH 734 million,…
Qazaq Air is launching regular flights on Almaty – Kyzylorda route. The flights will be launched from September 9 and will be operated three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Saturday). In June, Kazakhstan announced a decision to launch international flights to a number of countries following coronavirus-related restrictions of implementing flights. The flights have…
Compared to July 2019, manufacturing production output rose by 1.8% in July 2020. Production output increase was also in mining and quarrying (of 11.5%), but in electricity and gas supply there was a drop of 14.1%). Total industrial production output increased by 0.1%. Compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, production output rise…
Minister of Finance Martin Helme (EKRE) said at a government press conference that Estonia had a deficit budget this year and would likely have one in several years to come. An extension of wage support for the tourism industry is not on the cards. Helme added that if the wish were to balance the state…
Russia’s ongoing aggression in Eastern Ukraine remains one of the key threats to national security, so the level of funding for the security and defense sector for the next year cannot be reduced, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has said this during a meeting on the defense…
Ukraine’s ready-to-eat and canned fish exports grew by 7% YoY in January-June, to $3.5 million, according to the press service of the State Agency of Fisheries. “In January-June, Ukraine exported 1,900 tons of ready-to-eat and canned fish worth $3.5 million, up by $232.1 thousand (7%) YoY,” reads the report. The biggest buyers of Ukrainian-produced ready-to-eat…